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Chapter 720: Chapter 725 Beheading_1
Time flew by quickly, and the end of the first month was approaching, lifting the restrictions that came with the New Year.
With that, the execution of the Yin Family was scheduled.
On the twenty-eighth day of the first month, Yin Zheng and Yin Yinyue ate their last meal before being put in the prison cart.
On the way from the prison to the execution ground, Yin Zheng and Yin Yinyue were pelted with vegetable leaves and stones, likely the most wretched they had ever been in their lives.
However, they had sown the seeds of their own actions, and now they had to bear the bitter fruit themselves.
"They’ve harmed us for so many years, and now they’re finally getting their comeuppance!"
"The county magistrate of White Stone County has changed multiple times, and finally, we’ve got one who gets things done; no need to worry about our shops being robbed anymore."
"I don’t know about anything else, but ever since the Yin Family was arrested, things aren’t as expensive as before!"
"True that; life doesn’t feel as tough anymore."
The onlookers expressed their thoughts one after another.
To summarize in one sentence, the downfall of the Yin Family brought many benefits to the people of White Stone Town.
It wasn’t long before the prison cart arrived at the execution ground.
When Yin Zheng and Yin Yinyue were taken down, a group of angry people rushed up.
The government officials in charge of the escort were indecisive, and the prisoners were swept into the crowd, followed by a flurry of beatings.
A few government officials exchanged looks and deliberately waited a while before rescuing the prisoners.
The evils committed by the Yin Family were too many to be recorded; a simple beheading was too lenient for them.
If it weren’t for the Founding Emperor abolishing the five brutal punishments, including death by a thousand cuts, they could be tasting each of them right now.
"Please calm down, everyone; it’s almost a quarter past noon, don’t delay their descent into the Eighteen Layers of Hell."
Qin Longyun An soothed the enraged crowd; such a chaotic scene could easily lead to accidental injury.
"Right, folks, don’t block the officer’s way; the thought of these people living even a minute longer disgusts me!"
"In Hell, there’s ear slicing and frying in oil; that’s the real deal. Let’s not block the way, hurry up and disperse to let them get on with their punishments below!"
The crowd voluntarily cleared a path, but the cursing never ceased.
Lord Yu had never seen such an uncontrollable scene before and blamed himself even more.
If he had arrived sooner, the townsfolk wouldn’t have suffered for so long.
Yin Yinyue and Yin Zheng knelt at the center of the execution ground, flanked by a burly man wielding a butcher’s knife, trembling involuntarily.
If they could do it all over again, they would definitely not commit such evils.
Or at least stop before Qin Longyun took office.
But there’s no medicine for regret in the world, and what has happened cannot be changed.
Yin Zheng was in despair, merely kneeling with his head drooping.
While Yin Yinyue still harbored a slim hope for Xuan San, whom she had never truly regarded.
She had previously disdained Xuan San’s background, considering him nothing but a brute, yet now he was her only hope.
He loved her so much, he ought to come.
As time ticked away second by second, Lord Yu glanced at the position of the sun and then took out a token. 𝒏𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
"The hour has come, proceed with the execution!"
Lord Yu gave the order coldly, his words serving as the death knell for Yin Zheng and Yin Yinyue.
Yin Yinyue grew anxious, but amidst the pressing darkness, the person she awaited was nowhere to be seen.
Could it be that years of waiting had exhausted his patience?
No, Xuan Qing had said that in his lifetime, the only woman for him was her, and unless he died, his feelings would never change.
So why was he absent when she needed him the most?
Until the final moment, the expected person still had not arrived.
Yin Yinyue could only close her eyes, and in the next moment, the executioner raised the knife and brought it down.
